Finding Nemo (2003) Poster

(2003)

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Violence & Gore

  • A barracuda with very long and pointed teeth snaps viciously at Marlin and Coral, Marlin is knocked unconscious, and the other fish along with many eggs are gone when he comes around (the barracuda apparently ate them although we do not see it).
  • Dory is hit in the nose, her nose bleeds, Bruce gets a whiff of the blood and goes into a frenzy chasing Marlin and Dory through a wrecked submarine, crashing into doors, lunging through hatches, breaking through the hull and trying to squeeze into a torpedo tube; the two fish push a torpedo into his mouth, he spits it out, and it floats toward an underwater mine field setting it off.
  • Two fish swim into very deep and very dark water, they see a light and begin to follow it, but it turns out to be a anglerfish with very sharp teeth, and it chases them and snaps at them (one fish ends up in its stomach, along with its lighted lantern, briefly).
  • Two fish are surrounded by jelly fish (one is stung a couple of times), they bounce off the tops and try to get out but one is trapped; the other returns to save it and they both fall unconscious after being stung several times (one has scars on its side).
  • There are tense moments when Nemo goes into a tank filter to clog it with a pebble and is sucked back into the filter tube toward a fan -- it is pulled out just before hitting it.
  • Two fish are sucked into a blue whale's mouth and one rams repeatedly at its "teeth" (actually baleen plates used to filter krill and plankton) trying to get out. Eventually, water rushes through, the two trapped fish cling to the whale's tongue, and they are shot out of its blowhole.
  • A large fishing net scoops many fish into it, they scream and panic, but then they swim hard downward and the net breaks and the fish are freed -- one fish seems injured but it's fine.
  • A father fish panics when his son swims into open water, a diver rises behind the young fish and scoops him into a net. The father fish chases in terror but is pushed away by a boat propeller.
  • A girl screams when a pelican flies through a dentist's office and a fish jumps into her hair.
  • Two fish flop onto a table and one is flipped down a drain (we see him swirling through pipes).
  • A man's mouth is drilled by a dentist (he yells and the drill whines).
  • A dentist pulls a tooth out of a man's mouth when he is startled and the man yells.
  • Two fish flap around on a pier surrounded by seagulls, and one is picked up and pulled on by the seagulls.
  • A pelican scoops the two fish up and flies off, is chased by many seagulls, they swoop and fly and end up slamming into a boat's sails (their beaks poke through).
  • A large shark smiles and laughs menacingly at two fish showing his many rows of pointed teeth, he escorts them to a meeting with two other sharks and the fish are frightened that they will be eaten.
  • A frightened fish swims erratically in a tank and runs into the glass a few times, and a pelican flies into a window a few times.
  • Two crabs snap at fish as it passes, a fish threatens a crab by holding it out of the water where seagulls can see it as a potential meal.
  • A young fish goes through initiation rites in an aquarium and swims through a fast-flowing stream of bubbles that they call "ring of fire."
  • A scary looking anglerfish chases Marlin and Dory and tries to eat them up. If you stay during the end credits, there is a scene where a small nervous fish eats the anglerfish up.

Profanity

  • When the tank is filthy, Gurgle asks "Don't you people realize we are swimming in our own..." before he gets cut off by Peach. He was trying to refer to their own excrement.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Three sharks comprise a support group to stop eating fish, which is clearly inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Bruce's appearance has his teeth and how massive he is.
  • After a heated argument where Marlin's overprotectiveness becomes too much for Nemo to bear, Nemo swims off to prove him wrong and gets captured.
  • There's plenty of lighthearted humour, and it's themes has struggling with parenthood and being separated from one's father.
  • The whole film can be very distressing.
  • A pelican flies into an office. A girl screams at the pelican. The pelican knocks down one of the tools and it goes on.
  • Dory and Marlin get chased by a anglerfish with strobe patterns and very sharp teeth.
  • A few jumpscares happen throughout the movie.
  • Darker than you might expect.
  • For preschoolers/kids and up.
  • The sight of a huge shark (Bruce) with a mouthful of sharp and nasty-looking teeth. We then learn that he's going through a step program to help him not eat fish, but when he spots some blood, he sets out after Dory and Marlin (through an old sub and open water) and repeatedly bites at them and slams into various things while trying to get them. They end up in an old sub's torpedo chute with Bruce repeatedly banging into the opening, forcing a torpedo (and them) closer to his mouthful of teeth.
  • Marlin and Dory are being chased in the abyss with the Anglerfish, although it has some comedic relief in it.
  • A fish almost gets caught in a tank filter.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • Mom and babies die after a barracuda attack in the beginning of the movie

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Mom and babies die offscreen after a barracuda attack
  • The whale that the two heroes are inside begins bellowing and draining its mouth of water. It then has them hanging on the whale's tongue and Marlin has to trust Dory that it means well. Once they let go, the whale shoots them out of its blowhole and it's revealed that it was sending them to the harbor where Nemo is.
  • The final scene shows a bunch of fish trapped in a fish net with Dory. Nemo (and Marlin) tries rescuing them and they end up above water unable to breathe shortly. Eventually they break the net and escape.
  • The scene where Bruce sticks his head in through a door smiling is clearly recreated from The Shining.
  • A whale eats Marlin and Dory.
  • In the opening scene, a clownfish named Coral and all but one of her eggs are eaten by a barracuda, but the actual process is not shown. We then see Marlin, who was knocked out unconscious by the barracuda, discover that Nemo's egg was the only egg that didn't get eaten.

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